The Populist movement among Augusta textile workers is examined through three Georgia newspapers the Democratic Augusta Chronicle, the Populist People’s Party Paper, and the Wool Hat of Richmond County, from 1892–1893.

+ NEW SOUTH

Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was the principal spokesman for the New South Creed. While he proclaimed support for the plight of the farmer, he painted visions of bountiful fields and fat cows throughout the South.

• Grady, Henry. The New South. New York: Robert Bonner’s, 1890.

+ THE POPULIST PRESS

• Clark, Thomas D. The Rural Press and the New South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948.

• Kantor, Shawn Everett. “Supplanting the Roots of Southern Populism: The Contours of Political Protest in the Georgia Hills.” Journal of Economic History 1995 55(3): 637–646.

• Kimmel, Bruce Ira. “The Political Sociology of Third Parties in the United States: A Comparative Study of the People’s Party in North Carolina, Georgia and Minnesota.” Ph.D. Dissertation (Sociology), Columbia University, 1981.

• Lawrence, Goodwyn. The Populist Moment: A History of the Agrarian Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

• McMath, Jr., Robert C. American Populism: A Social History, 1877–1898. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

• Quillian, Bascom Osborne, “The Populist Challenge in Georgia in the Year 1894.” Master’s thesis, University of Georgia, 1948.

• Rochester, Anna. The Populist Movement in the United States: The Rise, Growth, and Decline of the People’s Party — A Social and Economic Interpretation. New York: International Publishers, 1943.

+ AFRICAN–AMERICAN POPULISM

Populism caught on among many disillusioned black Americans during the post–Reconstruction period. The “40 acres and a mule” promises were not being upheld by the Democrats, whereas the Populists offered some hope of political equality, stewardship of tenant farmer’s rights, and taxation reform.

+ WOMEN’S POPULIST MOVEMENT

While Tom Watson and most other Southern Populists did not support voting rights for women, believing that the burden of the process would be too much for the delicate gender, the Populist movement nationwide gathered many women to its cause.